"Shh, stop laughing!" Mace hissed, raising his eyebrows. He watched his friend keel over in a spasm of cackling giggles. Brandon was too out of breath to reply.
Mace rolled his eyes, going back to his homework. "You're going to get us kicked out." An older woman squinted over at them as she stacked children's books into a pile. The library was hushed and silent, except for Brandon's stifled laughter and the occasional wind thrown up by the turning of a page. The boys were the only young people around as far as they could tell. There was the Wednesday Afternoon Ladies Book Club meeting going on downstairs and a few strays. Other than that, the only other people in the new Vancouver Library were the librarians.
"I can't help it," Brandon gasped under his breath. He pushed his phone across the table and Mace glanced down at the screen. It was a status from one of their friends, an all too predictable attempt to start more drama.
"You sure called it." Brandon said, shaking his head.
Mace smiled, remembering his words from the previous afternoon, indicating that a similar status wouldn't be long coming. His grin fell off his face as he saw one of the librarians in a stiff pleated skirt giving them the stink-eye.
"Shut up. She's going to come over here. Look like you're studying."
"We are studying." Brandon replied.
"Sure we are." He replied sarcastically. "Seriously dude, when's the last time you held an A in Ms. Langley's class?"
"The first day of school. But that's typical. Nobody in that class has an A. Not even Becca Muller, and she's practically a genius. Nobody gets A's from Ms. Langley."
"Well what do you have?"
"A D." Brandon grinned sheepishly, flipping through the pages of an anatomy book without even reading. "These pictures are gross. What's the point of learning this anyway? I know I'm not going to be a doctor."
"Maybe someday you'll need a doctor, and then you'll want to know what he's messing up inside you."
They laughed again, trying to stay quiet as the thin-lipped librarian started their way.
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